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Case Study: Split-Bulk Installation

Split-Bulk Installation

Installing bulk sterilizers into existing and operating facilities is one of the toughest challenges of purchasing a bulk sterilizer. For one project, involving a large university in Pennsylvania, a split bulk 49″ x 86″ x 86″ sterilizer was installed inside of an existing building in the winter during the spring semester. The double door, split bulk sterilizer was manufactured and assembled in our shop before sending it to the customer location. Through analyzing the unique project challenges and creating customized solutions, the split bulk sterilizer satisfied customer expectations with a successful installation that did not require disruption of the building.

Project Challenges

  • Existing customer carts dictated internal chamber dimensions.
  • Installation in center of campus during school year.
  • Multiple 58″ x 84″ door jams in the building hallways on the way to the lab.
  • HVAC ducting and piping at pit entrance is lower than the height of the sterilizer.
  • Pit needed to be designed to handle staging and rotating of the chamber sections before assembly.

Creating Solutions

  • Custom designed interior chamber to work with existing loading cart and carriage accessories.
  • Overnight installation minimized disruption to college campus.
  • Chamber was manufacturing in three parts to ensure that all components fit through hallways and doorways.
  • Lowered pit design was made to place sterilizer pieces down into the pit to be rotated for final assembly.
  • On-site seam weld, hydro test, and ASME stamp.

 

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Project Portfolio: New Mexico Tri-Lab

Adjacent to the University of New Mexico Health Sciences campus in Northeast Albuquerque, the $86 million, five-story building (one partially below grade) accommodates the New Mexico Department of Health Scientific Laboratory Division, the New Mexico Department of Agriculture Veterinary Diagnostic Services, and the New Mexico Office of the Medical Investigator.

The facility will include three bio-safety laboratory level 3 suites, one per agency. Bio-safety level 3 suites call for high-containment protocols to handle potentially-lethal agents.

Project Scope

  • Manufacture and supply 9 steam sterilizers
  • Freight and rigging for all sterilizers
  • Deliver and install
  • Startup and user training
  • Warranty and maintenance

Equipment Included

  • (2) LS368686 Double Door BSL3 Effluent Decontamination
    • Double Door
    • Horizontal Sliding Doors
    • EnviroVac High-Vacuum System
    • Bioseal
    • 36″ x 86″ x 86″
  • (3) LS243660 Double Door BSL3 Effluent Decontamination
    • Double Door
    • Radial Arm, Swing-Style Door
    • 24″ x 36″ x 60″
  • (4) LS202038 Small Laboratory Sterilizers
    • Single Door
    • Vertical Sliding
    • Standard Vacuum
    • 20″ x 20″ x 38″
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Patented Envirovac® Water Conservation System

Beta Star offers a water conservation vacuum system called EnviroVac® on all sizes of sterilizers, which was a former winner for the Green Vivarium Foundation’s Best Product or Service award. Developed by Beta Star Life Science Equipment, this patent-applied vacuum system reduces total water usage during an autoclave sterilization cycle by up to 80% when autoclaving porous or wrapped media. An emphasis on the water savings was engineered into the final EnviroVac® product, which circulates and reuses water in a condenser tank.

Fresh water, used in numerous manufacturing processes is being depleted at an excessive rate worldwide. By targeting major water utility requirement equipment, we can greatly reduce negative environmental impact on our freshwater resources.

Beta Star has been dedicating their resources to improve product features that will vastly reduce water utility consumption.

The patent-pending EnviroVac®, designed as a combination high vacuum/water condenser, requires a ½-inch copper water line with a minimum 20 psig for all autoclaves. Not requiring a liquid ring vacuum pump with a separate water condenser combines water and electric utility savings. The EnviroVac®, is also a high vacuum system capable of attaining 28.5³ hg on bulk sterilizers and 29.5³ hg on small to medium-sized sterilizers. The EnviroVac®, is not affected by normal fluctuations in water temperature and feed pressure, providing a more reliable energy efficient system.

An additional impact is more efficient air removal during preconditioning phase, providing more thorough steam penetration into porous loads and more efficient drying capability due to lower vacuum depths.